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...Lady of Threadneedle Street." Since 1694 written records have been preserved of her spinsterhood. Now at last an old servant, one W. Marston Acres, long in her employ, is to write her biography. Last week the august Court of Directors of the Bank of England commissioned him to "compile a story particularly stressing the points of human interest in the history of the world's most famous bank...
...English do not employ the American custom of having formal judges and out of courtesy to the visitors most American teams have followed the Oxford custom, which leaves the determination of the winner to a vote of the audience. It is the American belief that the decision of the audience is influenced chiefly by their preconceived convictions. The first international debate presented these difficulties and the added formidable hurdle of more mature debaters on the English side...
...TIME'S desire to lose the good will of its Southern friends. TIME will, however, continue to employ the "Mr." in referring to men who lack other titles. Would Mr. Henderson himself care to be styled plain "Henderson...
...parents long to give their sons "a year abroad before going into business," have encouraged the organization of a preparatory school at Oxford, of and for Americans only, by Professor Edgar C. Taylor of Washington University. Himself a former Longfellow Scholar at Oxford (from Bowdoin), Prof. Taylor will employ both American and British colleagues in a school organized along the combined lines of an Oxford hall and a U. S. preparatory school. The school opens "soon...
...printed criticisms, be echoed by any large number of students, it is evident that much of what passes for education at Harvard, is mere juggling of dead facts; and that both professors and students who year after year go through the farce of repeating the performance might better employ their time in peddling shoe laces...